Lesego is his name Little Tabo started walking, and he is growing up so fast. I have been away the last 4 Months. Zanele, my wife, is looking after the smallholding, no running water and electricity it’s no easy task. Thank god she’s a strong woman, and with the[…]
Read MoreThe real reason we sucked “We lost on price Werner”, I’ve have heard this so many times before. Exhausted, grinding my teeth I catch myself responding in a moment of weakness, “They [the client] will be back, we’ll have to go in and fix their [the competitor] screwups soon.”[…]
Read MoreWhat makes a ‘designer’? I’m not sure if it’s the human condition or a remnant of the industrial age that drive humans to label and categorise everything? This practice either denies the deserving of recognition or bestows admiration on the arrogant. Elements Talk 2016 I met Olga Rafalska and[…]
Read MoreTo fall in love again. Every chick-flick, or romantic comedy, has the same premise. A lady falls for the wrong guy. A few scenarios play out, culminating in a frantic rush to an airport where Mr Right declares his love. And they live happily ever after. Additional scribble-notes on[…]
Read MoreBeautiful Constraints “Give me the freedom of a tight brief”, David Ogilvy. I often think back to the large easels in the life-drawing class. Each blank sheet ripe with endless possibilities. There was a time that they also represented personal failure. My first defining strokes kept failing to capture[…]
Read MoreThings to do when you lost your way “We wanna be free! We wanna be free to do what we wanna do. We wanna be free to ride. We wanna be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man!” — Peter Fonda, The Wild Angels (1966) What if.[…]
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